http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=3482Hughes: I guess there's a chronology to this. I signed up and volunteered for Ranger training to try and get into the Ranger regiment, which is the elite infantry unit of the army. After basic training and airborne training I moved to the Ranger Indoctrination Program, which is essentially a three-week hell to select candidates for the Ranger battalion. So I passed that and became a Ranger. After being in the Ranger regiment for about 8 months to a year, I went to Ranger school, which is the famous three-month course that people have heard of—- three months of plodding through mountains and swamps and whatever else Georgia has to offer. Right after I got back from Ranger school—I finished in September of 2002—was [when I was first deployed] to Afghanistan. I was in Afghanistan for 4 months. We were in the eastern mountain area of Afghanistan conducting patrols of various kinds, searching for personnel and equipment—show of force patrols—and of course the base that we were on had set up a free clinic for locals who were hurt and needed medical care.
So after that, we came back to the States and almost immediately cycled into Operation Iraqi Freedom. We started deploying for that very early in 2003. My battalion was among the first groups of people to enter Iraq. The first time I went to Iraq [was during the] Lynch rescue. And then from Nazriye, we worked our way north into Baghdad and stayed in Baghdad for a couple of months running the same kinds of special-operations missions that we were running in Afghanistan.
In April, May, and June of this year, I went back to Afghanistan. We were over there running the same kinds of missions we were doing before. I got back at the end of May to start out-processing to get my paperwork done to leave the army. I left the army in June 2004 to come here for summer school. I had saved up leaves, so I took two months of leave at the end of my tour. My final exit date from the army was Aug. 30 of this year.
Excerpt from an interview in the Yale Herald 09/2004. Brian Hughes claiming Ranger status. Anyone know if he is legit?
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